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                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text><body><div type="edition" xml:lang="lat" n="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0550.phi001.perseus-lat1"><div type="textpart" subtype="book" n="6"><l n="546">quippe cadunt toti montes magnoque repente</l><l n="547">concussu late disserpunt inde tremores.</l><l n="548">et merito, quoniam plaustris concussa tremescunt</l><l n="549">tecta viam propter non magno pondere tota,</l><l n="550">nec minus exultant, si quidvis cumque viai</l><l n="551">ferratos utrimque rotarum succutit orbes.</l><l n="552">Fit quoque, ubi in magnas aquae vastasque lucunas</l><l n="553">gleba vetustate e terra provolvitur ingens,</l><l n="554">ut iactetur aquae fluctu quoque terra vacillans;</l><l n="555">ut vas inter <del>aquas</del> non quit constare, nisi umor</l><l n="556">destitit in dubio fluctu iactarier intus.</l><l n="557">Praeterea ventus cum per loca subcava terrae</l><l n="558">collectus parte ex una procumbit et urget</l><l n="559">obnixus magnis speluncas viribus altas,</l><l n="560">incumbit tellus quo venti prona premit vis.</l><l n="561">tum supera terram quae sunt extructa domorum</l><l n="562">ad caelumque magis quanto sunt edita quaeque,</l><l n="563">inclinata minent in eandem prodita partem</l><l n="564">protractaeque trabes inpendent ire paratae.</l><l n="565">et metuunt magni naturam credere mundi</l><l n="566">exitiale aliquod tempus clademque manere,</l><l n="567">cum videant tantam terrarum incumbere molem!</l><l n="568">quod nisi respirent venti, <del>vis</del> nulla refrenet</l><l n="569">res neque ab exitio possit reprehendere euntis;</l><l n="570">nunc quia respirant alternis inque gravescunt</l><l n="571">et quasi collecti redeunt ceduntque repulsi,</l><l n="572">saepius hanc ob rem minitatur terra ruinas</l><l n="573">quam facit; inclinatur enim retroque recellit</l><l n="574">et recipit prolapsa suas in pondere sedes.</l><l n="575">hac igitur ratione vacillant omnia tecta,</l><l n="576">summa magis mediis, media imis, ima perhilum.</l><milestone unit="card" n="577"/><l n="577">Est haec eiusdem quoque magni causa tremoris.</l><l n="578">ventus ubi atque animae subito vis maxima quaedam</l><l n="579">aut extrinsecus aut ipsa tellure coorta</l><l n="580">in loca se cava terrai coniecit ibique</l><l n="581">speluncas inter magnas fremit ante tumultu</l><l n="582">versabunda<add>QUE</add> portatur, post incita cum vis</l><l n="583">exagitata foras erumpitur et simul altam</l><l n="584">diffindens terram magnum concinnat hiatum.</l></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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